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For many of us this past year, our backyards took on a profoundly important role. In the era of social distancing, yards were transformed into outdoor oases, and even now, there are no signs that...

Exiled Belarusians plan a large protest on June 5 at the Belarusian-Polish border.

The demolition of an Orthodox church built illegally on the property of a Bosnian Muslim woman began on June 5 in the village of Konjevic Polje in the Serbian-controlled entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Russia’s prison service says that 600 convicts will begin work on the Baikal-Amur Mainline railway this month. For some human rights activists and government critics, the idea of using prisoners for construction projects looks like a return to the gulag.

A prominent Belarusian political analyst has fled the country, saying he fears being imprisoned, days after being named by detained journalist Raman Pratasevich in a televised interview widely considered to have been given under duress.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that laying the pipes for the first of two lines of the prospective Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Germany has now been “successfully completed.”

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A court in Moscow has upheld the Justice Ministry's move to designate the Latvia-based independent Meduza news outlet as a “foreign agent” -- a move that requires it to label itself as such and subjects the media outlet to increased government scrutiny and regulation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill that would ban supporters and members of organizations deemed as "extremist" from being elected to any post -- making it virtually impossible for anyone connected to jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny from gaining public office.

A land mine explosion has killed two Azerbaijani journalists and a local official in an area recaptured from Armenian separatists during last year's war over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.